Re: Free at Last !!

On 4/10/2024 9:00 AM, Mike Mocha wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:02:52 GMT, PX wrote:
> 
>>> On 2024-02-26 15:18:48 +0000, PX said:
>>>
>>>> 	Free from Google that is. From now on anything I post here will
>> only
>>>> be accessible through a newsreader. Usenet just got a lot more private
>>>> and text posts are pretty much invisible to the world wide web. Before
>>>> all text groups were indexed by Google groups and showed up in Google
>>>> search. The remaining free indexers like NZB King never index text
>>>> posts in binary groups
>> so,
>>>> damn, usenet has gone underground as far as text posts are concerned.
>>>> And, except for a few groups,
>> binaries
>>>> are poorly indexed too by both free and paid indexers. Oh, and there's
>>>> the spam issue too. All the holy roller material that Ivan used to
>>>> post here was done through Google groups. They were cross posted
>>>> across multiple groups. I'd like to think it was me posting "Cunt
>>>> Comics" that made him finally give up on this one but it could have
>>>> been Google starting to crack down too. Anyway, a new age is upon us
>>>> and I, personally, am delighted that this post won't show up on the
>>>> web.
>>>
>>> I had no idea this was even a thing. Here's hoping there are few
>>> unintended consequences ... although there probably will be many.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile, though:
>>>
>>> “You can continue to view and search for historical Usenet content
>>> posted before February 22, 2024 on Google Groups.”
>>>
>>> As someone who tries to avoid Google, it will be interesting to see
>>> from how far back one can actually retrieve content that way.
>>>
>>> If at all.
>>
>> I checked the google groups listing of this group and it says 5607
>> articles but you can only go back 1 page at a time. Google seems to have
>> eliminated the option to jump through pages of search results in general
>> with only a next button. My newsreader says around 1700 articles with
>> the oldest being article #2 posted on July 1st 2003 so it looks like
>> I've got it all and access it easily. Text retention ends around June
>> 2003 and binary on August 15, 2008 for the most part. Google does have
>> older content archived but the trend is to make that material less easy
>> to find even if it's there. Google groups doesn't handle binaries well
>> at all so the parts numbers of my binary posts are inflating their
>> figure.
> 
> Wow this is cool!  I never thought I'd see the day either.  I hope it stays
> underground forever.
> 

and nobody ever comes here to read and discuss anything?
sorry, I am here now. the harbinger of things to come